Noreen Kompanik

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Noreen Kompanik is a freelance travel writer and photographer based in San Diego, California and a member of the International Travel Writers and Photographers Alliance, International Food, Wine, and Travel Writer's Association and the San Diego Press Club. Since launching her writing career in October 2014, Noreen has had over 450 published articles. She is also an associate editor at Food, Travel, Wine Magazine. Her love of travel blended with her background in nursing enable her to create stories covering local, national and international travel, exotic destinations, beach and mountain destinations, world history, military history, family travel, hiking, food and wine, sustainable living, inspirational topics, and travel writing. She is a regular contributor to Travel Pulse, Europe Up Close, BuzzFeed, and more. Noreen's articles have appeared in Traveling Mom, Lost Treasure Magazine, History Magazine, Edible San Diego Magazine, San Diego Family Magazine, International Living, San Diego Reader, Grand Magazine, Military Magazine, VitaBella Magazine, Agent at Home Magazine, Wishes Travel, Vacation Rental Travels Magazine, Food, Wine, Travel Magazine, WINEormous.com, Epicurean Traveler, GoNomad.com, CoffeeSphere,com, Mabel & Moxie, Links and Libations, BabyBoomsters.com, MilesGeek.com, InTravel Mag.com, Travel Post Monthly.com, TravelthruHistory.com, Travelmag.co.uk, Today's Christian Living, and Great Escape Publishing. In addition, Noreen is the founding pioneer and manager for an aspiring writer's program sponsored by Great Escape Publishing called the Travel Writer's Cafe. She has also served as a regular instructor and success panelist for Great Escape Publishing's yearly writer's conference, The Ultimate Travel Writers Program. Noreen is also launching a travel writer's Mastermind/Press Trip program in 2020 in conjunction with fellow writer and colleague Kristi Dosh. Noreen's website What's in Your Suitcase? http://www.whatsinyoursuitcase.com/ houses many of her published articles. Noreen has lived in Europe and travels often to her vacation villas in the Hawaiian Islands, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. She has visited 21 European countries, including the U.K., Germany, Italy, Greece, Switzerland, and Turkey and is a frequent traveler to other Caribbean destinations.

Noreen Kompanik

June 14, 2021

Dignity and Determination: Rosa Parks, the “First Lady” of Civil Rights

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By Noreen Kompanik Sometimes a single act of defiance can be the catalyst for momentous change. Especially when…

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November 29, 2020

Angels and Demons: Birmingham’s Poignant Tale in the Battle for Civil Rights

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By Noreen Kompanik It was a Sunday morning on September 15, 1963. Four lovely African-American girls were happily tying the sashes of their choir robes in the basement lounge in Birmingham, Alabama’s 16th Street Baptist…